Month: January 2010

News Flash: Women secretly hate the fashion choices most men make

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 23, 2010

Web Watch openly admits that we grew up with the eight-color box of Crayola crayons.

We don’t know the difference between cyan, sky blue, light blue, purple, blueberry, navy blue, royal blue, denim, or burnt sienna colors.

To us, those all qualify as “blue”, and since they’re all the same color they all should match appropriately to each other. Besides, “jeans” go with everything, right? Right.

And because of our keen fashion sense, Web Watch knows that we can comfortably sit back and mock other people’s fashion choices of their own.

Because Web Watch would never stoop so low as to participate in any of the EIGHT FASHION TRENDS THAT MEN FOLLOW THAT WOMEN HATE.

Tags 10 Things, fashion, Party Talk, Relationships, website

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January 23rd (National Pie Day) vs March 13th (National Pi Day)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 22, 2010

January 23rd, as everyone knows, is NATIONAL PIE DAY.

And there are all sorts of ways for you to celebrate National Pie Day, including the obvious – such as “bake a pie” or “bring a pie to work”, and the not-so-obvious “have a pie fight” or “pass along pie memories” (whatever that means).

Even restaurants that are self-proclaimed “famous for their pies” have taken to promoting the need to CELEBRATE PIE.

Tags food, holidays, News, Pie, Relationships, website

Websites

The Hokey-Pokey is just a Body Part Rebus

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 21, 2010

Web Watch hasn’t had a NSFW entry in a while, so we thought we’d throw one in today just because we can.

Have you ever wondered about how much our body parts play into our senses (besides the obvious “smell” and “taste”, of course)? LOOK, TOUCH, and LISTEN are three parts of an art project called FLESHMAP done by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg.

In each of these three studies, FLESHMAP highlights how and where our bodies are mentioned in song, how they look in abstract, and how we feel when we touch each other — all in unique graphical displays.

Tags nsfw, Party Talk, Relationships, website

News

Every year 120,000 people die from accidents. Here’s the breakdown of the weirder ones…

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 20, 2010

Every year approximately 120,000 PEOPLE DIE FROM ACCIDENTS. Here’s some of that breakdown, according to 2006 data from the CDC:

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How To Internet Websites

Today’s lesson: Writing jokes isn’t easy. Computers that write jokes aren’t funny.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 19, 2010

A friend of ours is a comedy writer.

He always says that writing jokes isn’t easy. We keep telling him that he would have more free time if scientists would invent a robot that could write jokes.

He insisted that there was no way a machine could write something that was as funny as what a person could write. Web Watch tried not to point out how horrible some so-called sitcoms are, or how repetitive certain late-night talk show host monologues have become.

And then along comes the JOKE WRITING COMPUTER.

Tags How To, Internet, Party Talk, science, website

Music Video

Want to be in a music video? Open casting call is online now – all you need is a webcam

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 18, 2010

Web Watch was at a music video shoot many, many years ago. It consisted of standing around a concert stage in an empty arena for hours on end while the same song got played over and over for the artist to lip-sync. It really wasn’t as much fun as we were promised, and no pizza was provided. Through the magic of editing, the crowd shots in the finished video look much more packed than what was really there.

So have you ever wanted to be in a music video, but were never in the right place at the right time? Now’s your chance.

Tags lipdub, Music, Video

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Boosting your metabolism helps you lose weight. Sadly, Twinkies are not the answer

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 17, 2010

One thing Web Watch knows how to do is tell others what they are supposed to do to lose weight.
It’s quite simple – “eat less and exercise more.”

See how easy it is to say that? The hard part, as we all know, is actually following through with the advice that we freely give to others. Web Watch may not practice what we preach, but we’re really not the kind of people we would preach to anyway.

So let’s pretend that you’re already trying to eat a sensible breakfast, healthy lunch, and small portions at dinner. You’re exercising a little bit every day as best you can, but you haven’t really noticed any real differences yet.

Maybe all you need to do, since you’re doing everything else right, is to kickstart your metabolism a little. Here are a few suggestions that you can try:

Tags 10 Things, diet, How To, medical, science, survey

Internet

How much money can you make by blogging? Try $7.50/hour

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 16, 2010

Bloggers, being the new century journalists that they are (yes, we’re thinking of you Perez!), have to walk a fine line between the low-cost of entry to the world of online publishing and the low-cost return on investment they get on what they’re writing about.

This does explain the current glut of blog-as-book deals that Web Watch has shown you over the past few months, because mama bloggers gotta eat, and blogging by itself just isn’t enough to pay the bills.

Tags Blog, business, Internet